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tar(1) flags as a blackboard prop, that's nice. I wouldn't consider them that complicated to warrant being a background image of such a nature, though.

ago 11y ago
The flags kind of look wrong, there is 'f' without an argument and piping a file inside? Maybe my tar memory is just fuzzy, it feels like https://xkcd.com/1168/ https://xkcd.com/1168/
Karunamon 11y ago
That XKCD comic about tar(1) is more accurate than I'd like it to be.. I know off the top of my memory 'xvf' and 'cvzf' but that's about it.
- sokoloff 11y ago
  Convenience: https://xkcd.com/1168/ https://xkcd.com/1168/
sliverstorm 11y ago
Complicated? Just easy to forget. Esoteric unimportant details. I can sympathize. I have 4-5 languages I write once a month or so. Each has a different "if" syntax, and a different "for" syntax. Pretty soon I'm going to cave and write myself a little reference note like that. (Yeah, yeah, I'm sure any real ninjapirate worth his salt can perfectly recall every syntax rule of every language he's ever written)
- jacquesm 11y ago
  The closer two languages are the harder it is not to mess up with details like that.
- mikekchar 11y ago
  I don't think I can program in any language any more. I seem to just instinctively copy the syntax of the code around where I'm typing. I never notice myself doing it because when I'm adding or modifying code, it never enters my mind. When I have to write new code I'm always in a dither - "Do I need parentheses here?", etc. It's very strange. I blame writing a lot of ruby and javascript code (jumping back and forth to coffeescript), whose syntax is often seemingly random :-P. Slightly off topic, when I'm pair programming in ruby, I often say to the other person: "No you can't break the line there!" The other person rightly shows me that it works fine. Then they say, "Why did you think you can't do that?" My answer is always, "OMG... what kind of insane parser have they written to allow that to work".

ago 11y ago

The flags kind of look wrong, there is 'f' without an argument and piping a file inside? Maybe my tar memory is just fuzzy, it feels like https://xkcd.com/1168/ https://xkcd.com/1168/

Karunamon 11y ago

That XKCD comic about tar(1) is more accurate than I'd like it to be.. I know off the top of my memory 'xvf' and 'cvzf' but that's about it.

sokoloff 11y ago
Convenience: https://xkcd.com/1168/ https://xkcd.com/1168/

sliverstorm 11y ago

Complicated? Just easy to forget. Esoteric unimportant details. I can sympathize. I have 4-5 languages I write once a month or so. Each has a different "if" syntax, and a different "for" syntax. Pretty soon I'm going to cave and write myself a little reference note like that. (Yeah, yeah, I'm sure any real ninjapirate worth his salt can perfectly recall every syntax rule of every language he's ever written)

jacquesm 11y ago
The closer two languages are the harder it is not to mess up with details like that.
mikekchar 11y ago
I don't think I can program in any language any more. I seem to just instinctively copy the syntax of the code around where I'm typing. I never notice myself doing it because when I'm adding or modifying code, it never enters my mind. When I have to write new code I'm always in a dither - "Do I need parentheses here?", etc. It's very strange. I blame writing a lot of ruby and javascript code (jumping back and forth to coffeescript), whose syntax is often seemingly random :-P. Slightly off topic, when I'm pair programming in ruby, I often say to the other person: "No you can't break the line there!" The other person rightly shows me that it works fine. Then they say, "Why did you think you can't do that?" My answer is always, "OMG... what kind of insane parser have they written to allow that to work".